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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires

A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires.Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But that's not training for flames. That's not live fire.California's fire season gets hotter, longer, and more extreme every year -- fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California's blazes every year, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. In Breathing Fire, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have participated in the fire camp program and spoken to captains, family and friends, correctional officers, and camp commanders. The result is a rare, illuminating look at how the fire camps actually operate -- a story that encompasses California's underlying catastrophes of climate change, economic disparity, and historical injustice, but also draws on deeply personal histories, relationships, desires, frustrations, and the emotional and physical intensity of firefighting.Lowe's reporting is a groundbreaking investigation of the prison system, and an intimate portrayal of the women of California's Correctional Camps who put their lives on the line, while imprisoned, to save a state in peril.

Breathing Fire

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Science

An enterprising group of kids introduces a recycling program in their town.

In the Planet Protectors series, students are introduced to some of the key environmental issues affecting the United States today. Each book explores a particular environmental problem. These fictional accounts develop as students identify a problem and then design a solution. Readers will be thrilled by the engaging stories and, at the same time, they will learn importance science content. (Genre: Realistic Fiction)

Content-Based Chapter Books Fiction (Science: Planet Protectors): Waste Watchers

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#hardcover #climate #environment #collapse #ecology 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Kentucky

Life after Warming

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker * The New York Times Book Review * Time * NPR * The Economist * The Paris Review * Toronto Star  * GQ * The Times Literary Supplement * The New York Public Library * Kirkus Reviews

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.

An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation's Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it--the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress.

The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation--today's.

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD

"The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet."--Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times

"Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too."--The Economist

"Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the 'eerily banal language of climatology' in favor of lush, rolling prose."--Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

"The book has potential to be this generation's Silent Spring."--The Washington Post

"The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book."--Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books

The Uninhabitable Earth

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Minnesota

How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise

As humanity presses down inexorably on the natural world, people debate the extent to which we can save the Earth's millions of different species without sacrificing human economic welfare. But is this argument wise? Must the human and natural worlds be adversaries?
In this book, ecologist Michael Rosenzweig finds that ecological science actually rejects such polarization. Instead it suggests that, to be successful, conservation must discover how we can blend a rich natural world into the world of economic activity. This revolutionary, common ground between development and conservation is called reconciliation ecology: creating and maintaining species-friendly habitats in the very places where people live, work, or play.
The book offers many inspiring examples of the good results already achieved. The Nature Conservancy, for instance, has a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense, with more than 200 conservation projects taking place on more than 170 bases in 41 states. In places such as Elgin Air Force Base, the human uses-testing munitions, profitable timbering and recreation--continue, but populations of several threatened species on the base, such as the long-leaf pine and the red-cockaded woodpecker, have been greatly improved. The Safe Harbor strategy of the Fish & Wildlife Service encourages private landowners to improve their property for endangered species, thus overcoming the unintended negative aspects of the Endangered Species Act. And Golden Gate Park, which began as a system of sand dunes, has become, through human effort, a world of ponds and shrubs, waterfowl and trees.
Rosenzweig shows that reconciliation ecology is the missing tool of conservation, the practical, scientifically based approach that, when added to the rest, will solve the problem of preserving Earth's species.


Win-Win Ecology

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

Takes a close-up look at island biogeography, the science of the geographic distribution of life on islands, and its significance in terms of evolution and extinction

The Song of the Dodo

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The Entrenpreneur's Guide to Selling What You Grow

Discover how easy and profitable it is to grow and sell vegetables, fruit, flowers, and livestock from your own backyard market garden.

Backyard Market Gardening

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#paperback #pollution #climatechange #ecology #environment #environmental #environmentaleducation #education #science #earth 

Pollution is a growing problem around the globe. Using chemicals, old appliances, exhaust fumes, and plastics are just a few of the things that cause pollution on our planet. Pollution examines how water, soil, and the atmosphere have become increasingly polluted and the impact that pollution has on people's health. In the face of these challenges, people and countries have cooperated to clean up natural environments. They are also working to prevent pollution through technology, better planning, transportation alternatives, and more.

Global Issues: Pollution (on-Level)

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California

How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

"Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists."  --New York Times Book Review



"Comprehensive and compelling." --Booklist



"A powerful message." --Kirkus



"Should be required reading." --Library Journal 



For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire "the Beast." It acted like a mythical animal, alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it's not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. A glance at international headlines shows a remarkable increase in higher temperatures, stronger winds, and drier lands- a trifecta for igniting wildfires like we've rarely seen before.



This change is particularly noticeable in the northern forests of the United States and Canada. These forests require fire to maintain healthy ecosystems, but as the human population grows, and as changes in climate, animal and insect species, and disease cause further destabilization, wildfires have turned into a potentially uncontrollable threat to human lives and livelihoods.



Our understanding of the role fire plays in healthy forests has come a long way in the past century. Despite this, we are not prepared to deal with an escalation of fire during periods of intense drought and shorter winters, earlier springs, potentially more lightning strikes and hotter summers. There is too much fuel on the ground, too many people and assets to protect, and no plan in place to deal with these challenges.



In Firestorm, journalist Edward Struzik visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st century. Wildfires can no longer be treated as avoidable events because the risk and dangers are becoming too great and costly. Struzik weaves a heart-pumping narrative of science, economics, politics, and human determination and points to the ways that we, and the wilder inhabitants of the forests around our cities and towns, might yet flourish in an age of growing megafires.

Firestorm

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Arizona

Ecology and the Human Spirit

Earth in the Balance

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#paperback #Plants #Ecology #Science #World #Illustrated #Children’s￼ #Photosynthesis #Earth #Energy￼￼ box 20
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Texas

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Living sunlight

New York

A Novel

An award-winning, compelling novel of spiritual adventure about a gorilla named Ishmael, who possesses immense wisdom, and the man who becomes his pupil, offers answers to the world's most pressing moral dilemmas. Reprint.

Ishmael

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Gross Garbage, Rotten Rubbish, and the Science of Trash

Get up close and personal with a wonderful world of waste.

From composting and recycling, to landfills and dumps, to how creative people are finding new ways to reuse rubbish. It's fun to talk trash when it's jam-packed with infographics, thematic spreads, wow-worthy photos, sidebars, serious stats, and fabulous facts. Also included are quizzes and activities to inspire kids to take action, be proactive, and rethink the things we throw away.

This Book Stinks!

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Cinema in the Edge 

Ecology and Popular Film

#hardcover #naturalhistory #ecology #biology #endangeredspecies

Wisconsin

A Falconer's Journey Across the American West

The Rites of Autumn

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The book has some moderate notes in the margins. The white pages are lightly browned with age. 

From the back of the book:

These essays by Wendell Berry express his hope for a harmonious relationship of humanity with the earth and all its creatures. Whether his focus is on the poet and nature, as in "A Secular Pilgrimage"and "Homage to Dr. Williams," or consumerism, as in
"Think Little," or strip mining, as in
"Mayhem in the Industrial Paradise," his subject is always the urgency of resolving the conflict between people and the fragile world in which they must live. Perhaps this theme is best expressed in the extended essay, "Discipline and Hope," in which a dismal collection of social ills is seen as originating in the contemporary inability to recognize a potential for order through perceiving the world as a whole. Berry's passionate, reasoned, articulate voice speaks compellingly of the need to learn a new way of seeing.

"Berry's book will be treasured by those convinced, as the author is, that 'We have despised our greatest gift, the inheritance of a fruitful land.?'"

- Louisville Times


"A dignified and lucid statement of the need for personal attention- love -for the land."

- Boston Phoenix

The book lists today for $9.99.

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I donate all money made from these book sales to local non-profits (SE Pennsylvania) that help people facing a wide range of crises. 


Essays Cultural & Agricultural

A Continuous Harmony

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Oklahoma

Weaves together more than twenty letters that illuminate the author's career and his motivations for becoming a biologist, explaining how success in the sciences depends on a passion for finding a problem and solving it.

Letters to a Young Scientist

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Missouri

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Mild wear on top of spine, red dot on bottom edge. mild curl on top of back cover. See photos. 

Michigan

A Novel (movie Tie-In)

China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize--now a major motion picture
 
Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has sold millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market), outpacing everything except Mao's Little Red Book. The novel draws on the author's experience during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s. Chen Zhen, a Beijing college student, volunteers to work in China's remote Inner Mongolia region as part of a movement to modernize the countryside. As he admires the balanced lifestyle of the nomadic herdsmen there, he also grows fascinated by the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. But when government policies threaten the wolves' extinction, he sees an unfolding ecological tragedy--and a parable for China's explosive growth.

Wolf Totem

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South Carolina

Investigate - Ecology, The Sky, Sound - 3 Books!

Clean, solid copy. See pics 📸

 #hardcover #nonfiction #water #ecology #earth #conservation #life

R

The Drop of Life

Attempts to show how important is the world's fresh water supply, and how vulnerable. Addresses Australia, Africa, England and the US.

⭐ Water

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One Hundred One Easy Things You Can Do

Save the Animals!

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Jaime Lowe

Breathing Fire

Barbara Keeler

Content-Based Chapter Books Fiction (Science: Planet Protectors): Waste Watchers

David Wallace-Wells

The Uninhabitable Earth

Michael L. Rosenzweig

Win-Win Ecology

David Quammen

The Song of the Dodo

Andy Lee & Patricia Foreman

Backyard Market Gardening

Andrew J. Milson

Global Issues: Pollution (on-Level)

Edward Struzik

Firestorm

Al Gore

Earth in the Balance

Molly bang and Penny Chrisholm

Living sunlight

Daniel Quinn

Ishmael

Sarah Flynn

This Book Stinks!

Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann

Ecology and Popular Film

Dan O'Brien; Marjorie Braman (Editor); Carl Navarre (Editor)

The Rites of Autumn

Wendell Berry

A Continuous Harmony

Edward O. Wilson

Letters to a Young Scientist

Daniel Quinn

Ishmael

Daniel Quinn

Ishmael

Daniel Quinn

Ishmael

Jiang Rong; Howard Goldblatt (Translator)

Wolf Totem

Various

Investigate - Ecology, The Sky, Sound - 3 Books!

Peter Swanson; Mikhail Gorbachev (Foreword by)

⭐ Water

Ingrid Newkirk; Linda McCartney (Foreword by); Cleveland Amory (Introduction by)

Save the Animals!

Alice Jane Lippson & Robert L. Lippson

Life in the Chesapeake Bay